Posts tagged “Ben Folds”

Sunday, 27 October 2013

Still no baby! Everything’s ready for her (including us), but no birth over the weekend. Instead, I made a couple of Mix CDs. Yes, actual, physical CDs. Yes, I still do that sometimes, though it has actually been a couple of years since I’ve done so. So because it’s been so long, I decided to make a double-disc. I also threw out my rule about trying to have only one repeat from previous discs (there are a lot of repeats on these).

For this set I just arranged my collection alphabetically by artist and started at the top. I tried not to use more than 2 songs for any given artist chosen. I got down to the “P” artists before I filled up two discs! I fudged the order a couple of times (Julia Massey shouldn’t be on the first disc, for example), but whatever.

So here are the track lists. Wherever possible I tried to link to somewhere where you could download the song, or at least to a place where you can listen to the song. I was actually able to find them all… except for the songs that I wrote myself…

Thursday, 19 November 2009

One thing you might not know about me is that I don’t listen to a lot of music, by which I mean I tend to focus on a small selection of music and then listen to it over and over and over again.

One of the things I do is I make Mix CDs that I listen to while I’m driving around—to and from work, to and from Fools Play, etc. Thing is, I only make one Mix CD about every three months and that’ll be pretty much all that I’ll listen to until I make another one.

Traditionally I go iTunes and organize my music by most recently added, then start pulling the best songs over to a new playlist as I work my way back in time through my music collection. This way my Mix CDs tend to have a handful of songs that I’ve acquired recently. I also try not to put in too many songs that were in my previous Mix CD. But I don’t add much music to my collection very often, so doing it that way only fills up a portion of the CD. So then I delve into my list of all-time most listenable songs. Y’know, the songs that I don’t really ever get tired of listening to (the playlist that I call “Ultimate Flawless Victory” in iTunes) and toss in a few of those. Then I look at all of the songs in my collection that I’ve given four or five stars and toss in a few of those.

These Mix CDs are both reflective and projective. I try to incorporate how my musical tastes have changed over the past three months while at the same time trying to predict what I’ll want to listen to for the next three months.

Here are the last two CDs I created:

August 2009:

Always Been There Anyway – Julia Massey

Around the Bend – The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

Brain Problem Situation – They Might Be Giants

Buddy Holly – Weezer

Cellars by Starlight – Kay Hanley

Golden Blunders – The Posies

Good Fish – Julia Massey

Have a F*****g Baby – Three Ninjas

Headphones on Your Heart – Leeni

House of Mayors – John linnell

The Last Thing On Your Mind – Lights

Little Fighter X – Fighter X

Lollipop – Mika

Lovebite – Order of the Crimson Wizard

Me + Yr Daughter – Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head

Over and Over – Leeni

Red Underwears – Three Ninjas

Say It Ain’t So – Weezer

Shut Up and Let Me Go – The Ting Tings

Soft Rocked By Me – Jonathan Coulton

Somewhere on This Couch – The Crazy Boy Floyds

The Way I Am – Ingrid Michaelson

You Don’t Know Me – Ben Folds (featuring Regina Spektor)

November 2009 (there is one repeat song from the August CD—see if you can spot it)

Dance, Dance, Dance – Lykke Li

Dirt Bike – They Might Be Giants

Doll Partz – Order of the Crimson Wizard

Heading Out at Dawn – Terrapin Productions

Jenny Towner – Julia Massey

Los Angeles – They Might Be Giants

Mario’s Café – Saint Etienne

Powers – Three Ninjas

Pride & Strawberry Wine – The Wastelanders

A Quiet Room – Tangentbot

Secret Skin – Busdriver

Spin Around – Josie & The Pussycats

Stairs – Locust Street Taxi

Starry Eyed Surprise – Oakenfold

Stop – Spice Girls

Sun Shower – Busdriver

Teenage Dirtbag – Wheatus

Theme from “Greatest American Hero” – Joey Scarbury

True Affection – The Blow

Ugly Girl – Fleming & John

Vancouver – They Might Be Giants

Veronica – Elvis Costello

The Way I Am – Ingrid Michaelson

What’s Golden – Jurassic 5

Your Love Is a Drug – Puffy AmiYumi

I have no idea what these songs say about me, so feel free to psychoanalyze me to your hearts’ content based solely on the content of these lists. Enjoy!